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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 2° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 2.1° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 217 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 277 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 6,792 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 6,792 ft of the 16,042 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3,569 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-MAX8, then departed from runway 03 at Portland International Airport (KPDX) in Portland, Oregon. The takeoff distance was 4,153 feet, which accounted for 69% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 148 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of KPDX, it encountered local weather conditions of 70°F temperature and a wind speed of 3 knots from a direction of 190°. The crosswind and tailwind components were both 2 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile northeast of the airport and continued for 21 minutes, covering a distance of 144 nautical miles. The aircraft climbed from an initial altitude of 1,037 feet above sea level to a maximum altitude of 37,111 feet, an increase of 36,074 feet.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 4 miles east of the 49OR Land's Inn Ranch Airport in Dayville, Oregon. This phase lasted for 74 minutes and covered a distance of 599 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, which started 13 miles southwest of the WY51 Platt Ranch Airport in Encampment, Wyoming. The descent from 37,260 feet to 6,612 feet took 27 minutes and covered a distance of 118 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 34L at Denver International Airport (KDEN) was made from the south, with a heading of 1.0° at an altitude of 4 nautical miles and 1,269 feet above ground level. The landing was made on a runway length of 16,042 feet, with a threshold height of 62 feet above ground level, which was above the target. The threshold speed was good at 147 knots, and the touchdown speed was also good at 132 knots. The touchdown point was 2,238 feet beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown rate was firm at -321 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the runway rollout alignment was also very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 88°F temperature and a wind speed of 4 knots from a direction of 64°, with a crosswind component of 4 knots and a headwind component of 2 knots. The total landing distance was 6,561 feet, which accounted for 41% of the runway length.
The final phase of the flight involved taxiing to the parking from the runway, which took 5 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 870 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 138 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 10,873 pounds of fuel during the flight.
The Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft successfully landed at Denver International Airport (KDEN) on runway 34L. The final approach was initiated from the south, with the aircraft heading 1.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,269 feet above ground level (agl). The pilot's approach was well-executed, with a threshold speed of 147 knots, which is within the acceptable range.
Upon touchdown, the aircraft's speed was 132 knots, which is also within the acceptable range. The touchdown point was 2,238 feet beyond the designated touchdown zone, indicating that the pilot may have slightly over-extended the landing. However, the touchdown rate of -321 feet per minute (fpm) was firm, suggesting that the pilot maintained control of the aircraft during the landing.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were favorable, with a temperature of 88°F and a wind speed of 4 knots from a direction of 64°. The crosswind component was 4 knots, while the headwind component was 2 knots. These conditions did not appear to have significantly impacted the landing.
The total landing distance of 6,561 feet was 41% of the runway length, which is within the acceptable range. The runway rollout alignment was also very good, indicating that the pilot maintained control of the aircraft during the rollout phase. Overall, the landing was considered successful, with the pilot demonstrating good control and adherence to standard procedures.
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